To compare, you need to measure the attributes of the this and the compared entity.

The alternative entity compared in this case is the Existing Financial System that is handled by the Fed, Wall Street and the Bankers.

Now, there are innumerable number of comparisons and metrics that have already done this job for their preferred metrics and statistics. They all unequivocally side on the side of Bitcoin. (one example: https://wtfhappenedin1971.com/)

You are free to ignore these comparisons; but you have to compare and contrast that how cryptocurrencies, if ponzi compare to the modern financial system of all it's warts and what is the net effect of Cryptocurrencies and the Financial system as it exists today; rather than simply stating Cryptocurrencies are in and of themselves Ponzi.

I just came out watching the solution to how he actually solved it.

Recently I used Chrome OS, in break time, and I like the simplicity. I'm wondering and interested to know if Cloud9, EC2 and such platforms kind of enable remote development well enough?

Specifically, mostly interested in how it would work out for web-development and Data Science.

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There are plenty of cars (programming languages) with varied priorities. Identifying and labelling them is very useful in context to make ones own calls.

You get to learn about:

- Using Python to compute gravitational positions: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NGVBo6JJa6M

- Using Python to devise trading strategies to beat S&P 500: https://us.pycon.org/2016/schedule/presentation/1697/

- Using Python to do advance statistics: https://us.pycon.org/2016/schedule/presentation/1576/

- Using the dynamic features of Python in code real time to debug hard problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5XvAVgcbmdY

And many such diverse areas, even though you might be just toiling away to store and obtain some data in a database. Opens up horizons and makes you feel empowered.

On the other hand, some other programming communities are too obsessed with their testing frameworks and task runners.

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Digitisation team has roles open for multiple positions. I lead the Client Side Development - iOS Apps and Front-end Web Applications and am hiring for both across these geographies - full time and contract developers.

Stack - React/Redux/WebPack/ES7 and objectiveC/Swift/ReactNative for iOS

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Enterprise is, well, enterprise. Fortunately, Client Side Dev is un-encumbered by the much of the baggage of these and we have been able to create an oasis of awesomeness in this space.

The work in Enterprise is also not as much as there would be in a startup and the pay would be better.

Here is a concise set of carefully articulated arguments: https://docs.google.com/document/u/1/d/1Yfbhrlb7a_z-pQytLPwE... which are very true in the Indian context.

Also your argument on free-market ignores, assumes the absence of a regulator. It might hold when no regulator exists. But under the given condition when a limited amount of spectrum, a natural resource is auctioned to a select number of companies and a regulator exists, how possibly can this be un-regulated?

How possibly can you hand over the power to seek rent from these content provides to these bullying telcos. What would the repercussion be to the consumers of these content.

But what do they really want? The next billion internet users hooked onto their platform. That's what they paid Whatsapp a whooping $19B for.

I can't presume to know for sure. We'll both see what will they do of their Freebasics program now.

Enforcement of these #NetNeutrality principles is the literal granting of the Liberties and Equalities of opportunities, granted to individuals and as such this is a landmark order that will have far reaching repercussions.

Worth noting how this played out. A bunch of folks on the internet, organised themselves and campaigned to stop a $300B market cap corporation and a bunch of telecoms with strong lobbying capabilities. Who would have thought they would win? The situation is worth a Harvard case study or a Nate Silver book.

The future of influencing policy making is right here; and you ain't seen anything yet! Save The Internet team clearly seems to understand the virality of social networks better than Facebook does!

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I used to be active in the Python/Django community earlier and am getting involved in the JS-React-Redux community. Not only do most people live outside SF, they live in a remote place that you wouldn't have heard about.

Software, good software is creative and creativity needs serendipity. The pressure to meet the next funding round criteria or to get an Uber through the traffic hearing my next track not making eye contact with my uber-pooler isn't the best frame of mind conducive to creativity.

I'm sure a lot of top CEOs and the top guys in select areas have a great social circle - smartest people who they eat/hangout with, which is very good. But there are also a lot of me-toos, for whom just living in SF is the thing they are achieving that feed their egos.

But it seems to be that the result of this campaign has been a tremendous net negative, given how badly it fared as mentioned in the points above, but mostly also in the public perception. Is there anything called anti-marketing?

1. Facebook made users email the regulator on a subject of "tangential relevance" - saying they support Free Basics, while the questions asked were on Differential Pricing

2. These emails were unsubscribed by TRAI, and 12 MM of those 14 MM emails weren't actually sent - probably because they went out to an empty mailing list.

3. The emails that were sent, were sent by misleading people into "supporting digital equality".

4. Facebook choose to represent and speak for all of the millions that had chosen to "support digital equality" which was questioned by the regulator.

5. Facebook didn't bother to inform the users that originally answered the "opinion poll" of "supporting digital equality" of the questions asked by TRAI even after having been asked to and extending the consultation deadline for the same.

6. Facebook choose to spend $44MM on this campaign in this process. (and an obviously unknown but really large sum for lobbying!)

I'm no policy expert or a strategy consultant, but if there ever has been an epitome for "shooting oneself in the foot", this would be it.

So they divert their marketing budget to provide some free data to users as free basics.

It's effectively bartering marketing and data costs. Stakes for Facebook in it are high, so I wouldn't be surprised if they even paid for all of the data of the users.

That's not the internet I know and wouldn't serve anything but the self serving interests of these conglomerates.